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314··on Inky Impression 5.7“ – Colour e-ink display for Raspberry Pi
Not that I could find - but I didn't look for long to satisfy my curiosity. There was a case where e-Ink defended against another patent claim, but not any where they were the aggressor. The set of patents could be for defensive purposes (as in to be used in defending against other patents), or to prevent competition. I didn't find anything definite either way, but as always absence of evidence doesn't really mean much.
314··on Inky Impression 5.7“ – Colour e-ink display for Raspberry Pi
You seem to be unaware of your communication style. It would work better if you took some time to work out why your comments come across as hostile and unproductive.

So tell me, how long have you been in the patent-lawyer industry?

See, that does not come across as a good faith attempt to communicate. It is similar to your posting style throughout this thread. Instead of interrogating people and demanding replies, how about you read the patents and explain if you think they are overlapping / inter-locking or not. Out of interest, which company in the display industry do you work for?

314··on Inky Impression 5.7“ – Colour e-ink display for Raspberry Pi
Looking through your comment history it seems that you have interrogated any poster who was ever mentioned patent problems, and demanded that they provide you with sources. It is not clear why they are required to do that.

https://patents.justia.com/assignee/e-ink-holdings-inc

That is quite a jumble of overlapping / inter-locking patents. The goal is to prevent competition using similar technology. It looks effective. And to answer your next question, no I'm not in the display industry, just thought it seemed interesting.

314··on Gmail gets approval to move forward with plan to ruin its spam filter
My gmail account is very old (got it quite early in the beta phase). Recently it gets flooded with very easy to filter spam: no text, only an image from a randomly generated one-time email address. If they can't filter such an easy class then don't hold out much hope for the future.
314··on What ever happened to the transhumanists?
This argument is disingenuous: not only your direct ancestors contributed to your existence. You are also dependent on all of the aunties and uncles, and other members of the community around your direct line that contributed to their survival.
314··on Ask HN: Working in tech for climate?
Do you believe that the human production of carbon and its release into the atmosphere is not affecting the planetary climate?
314··on Deepest infrared image of universe
I was thinking of the age - good point.
314··on The effects of sleep debt
There is no true anonymity on the internet, but for most purposes a weak pseudonym is enough.
314··on Deepest infrared image of universe
Not really - there is a fairly definite ending about 13.4b light years into the image.
314··on Mimic 3 by Mycroft
I find Siri really useful - for a very limited set of tasks where recognition is about 100% and being hands free has a benefit. Typically this is starting exercise workouts and countdown timers. For more general tasks the recognition is still good (for me, seems to cary by voice) but even at 90% there will be one mistakes in most requests.
314··on Wasting time in tech interviews
lol. This is why I reach for vi
314··on Wasting time in tech interviews
The War on illiteracy and meaningful reading comprehension.
314··on Russia Pulls Out All the Stops to Find Fresh Troops
Russia does not have a million soldiers. The total employed in the armed forces is about a million, including Air Force, Navy, logistics, mechanics etc. Actual men on the ground with rifles is much lower.
314··on Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released
The dude's just woke up - this needs a spoiler tag.
314··on The math prodigy whose hack upended DeFi won’t return funds
If the kid in the story had speculated about his attack it would be an opinion. His attack demonstrates that it is fact. Contrast this with your opinion that the courts will decide his actions were illegal.
314··on How This Ends
As long as you heed standard advice (treat stock as nice to have but value it at zero during wage negotiations) then the impact on your net worth should be minimal :)
314··on Tell HN: The loneliness of a pretty good developer
Oh this made me laugh. I worked at a startup for a year where Chris was actually a guy called Chris. Oj the stories
314··on Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test
I would agree: first attempt I scored 74 and analyzing their distance matrix it looks like their measure is broken. e.g. hammer and time are relatively close because "hammer time" is a phrase so their proximity frequency is high, not because the words are semantically related. Second attempt was 89 after a trivial change to account for the broken measure. Nice idea for an experiment but the execution is lacking.
314··on I can't let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation”
Based on your two comments in this thread I want to live in the world that coincides with your world view. It gives me hope.
314··on Playing with DALL-E 2
The difference between the two views could be summarized in a textbook intro from twenty years ago: here is a list of problems that are not (now) AI. Back then it would have included chess, checkers and other games that were researched for their potential to lead to AI. In the end they all fell to specific methods that did not provide general progress. While the current progress on image related problems is great, if it does not lead to general advances then an AI winter will follow.
314··on If I see an ‘accept cookies’ banner on a website, I close it immediately
You seem to be deliberately misunderstanding a post to try to make a point. It was clearly about sites that ask you to subscribe with a modal pop-up when you hit their landing page.
314··on Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out
Another cynical take would be that you were given perfect training for a software team in industry. Every team tends to have a small number of individuals trying to get that A, while their colleagues are not only satisfied with a B or a C but spend most of their days in meetings trying to ensure they drag down the software to their target.
314··on Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout
This is hilarious.
314··on Ask HN: Is your company considering inflation in this year's comp review cycle?
As an industry we have favored marketing of software over the quality of software. Promotion has been tied directly to that choice (expressed as "productivity" and "delivery") and then the people promoted by that system make hiring choice. It would be unexpected if the emergent outcome was not as you have described it.
314··on Ask HN: Is your company considering inflation in this year's comp review cycle?
The claim that the OP made was that inflation is an arbitrary number. The underlying phenomenon is not a number, more accurately it would be a vector containing all price deltas and any particular inflation measure is an arbitrary choice of how to project that vector onto a number. There is some validity to the claim. BMI is an interesting choice of comparison as many of the flaws in the measure are related to the arbitrary way that different body types produce different ranges.
314··on Ask HN: How much work do you do during your notice period?
Then you would be highly unprofessional. I'm on a three-month term where I am, it's fairly standard around here. I would expect to work as normal during those months, and other people that I have watched go through notice have done the same.
314··on Apple M1 Ultra
640GB should be enough for anyone.
314··on Ask HN: Do you pull and run code as part of code review?
Not generally, and I prefer not to. The code being clear enough to read is one of our review criteria.

But... our system is a large pile of legacy crap, and too often the only way to check something properly is to step through it in a debugger.

314··on Estonia, allies to trigger NATO Article 4
There are more than options, as the post that you are replying to explained. This kind of cheap response does not add anything.
314··on Player of Games
Indeed they would do well To Consider The Lack Of Gravitas.
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